Clearfield County’s decision-makers inked a five-year contract Tuesday to repurpose a former private federal prison as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.

The about 1,878-bed facility less than five miles from Philipsburg is expected to open by mid- to late November, Clearfield County Commissioner Tony Scotto said Wednesday.

Neither Scotto nor ICE were immediately able to divulge how much the agreement will pay the GEO Group to operate the facility.

About 800 people are set to be detained at the facility when it opens, Scotto said. No children are expected to be detained.

The GEO Group is the top taxpayer in the Philipsburg-Osceola Area School District. The real estate investment group poured in nearly $475,000 annually, district Superintendent Gregg Paladina said when the prison’s closure was announced.

The prison closed March 31 after the agency that oversees federal prisons declined an option to renew its contract at the direction of President Joe Biden.

Closing private federal prisons was one step to prevent corporations from profiting off incarceration, Biden said in January. Federal prison populations have also declined each of the past seven years.

“While I was greatly disappointed that the Biden administration shuttered Moshannon Valley Correctional Facility through executive order and eliminated hundreds of local jobs, this is a positive development for Clearfield County,” U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Howard, wrote in a statement. “I look forward to working with the county, ICE and the facility’s operators to ensure this transition runs smoothly.”